This course provides an opportunity to investigate questions and concerns about mathematics as a subject and mathematics education. It will consider the theories, practices and development trends in mathematics learning and mathematics curricula, including the interconnection between curriculum and development and various mathematics education issues. Questions about curriculum relevance and issues of equity and social justice - to do with ethnicity, culture, gender, language and technology, as the arise in mathematics education will be critically examined. Ethnomathematical research and examination of mathematical knowledge and practice in Pacific societies, both traditional and modern, and how they affect classroom learning will be vigorously pursued.